Engineer Lean Liquidity Event Viral 
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
Lean Startups/Back to Basics (2000-2010): No IPO’s, limited VC cash, lack of confidence and funding fuels “lean startup” era with limited M&A and even less IPO activity. The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. For VC’s and entrepreneurs the gold rush to liquidity was on.
Software By Rob
SEPTEMBER 22, 2009
You either luck out that your idea goes viral (which happens to maybe 1 out of 10,000 startups?) The Startup Lottery I need to stop here and say this: with a “hot idea&# startup the odds are overwhelmingly against ever getting funding, much less having a liquidity event that puts money in your pocket.
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